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About this mod
Smooth sculpt of Astarion's head with complementary textures and no bite marks. Tweaked default colors of eyelashes and eyes.
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Smooth sculpt of Astarion's head with complementary textures.
No bite marks.
Colors of eyelashes and eyes are tweaked.
Details:
Sculpting
Cheeks are ironed, lower part of the face is slightly lifted, the front of the face is less pointed outward, ears are closer to the head, eyelashes are elongated.
Much of Astarion's "grinch smile" is preserved, and even though I wasn't able to retain all his native facial animations, I've done everything that is currently possible to keep the spirit of his expressions.
If you wish to know more about why Astarion's expressions are different after the head is edited in Blender, read through this Discord thread.
I wasn't able to adjust the upper ear piercings because their rotation kept getting out of whack. Piercings on the upper part of the ear will be slightly detached, but the rest are fine. Fixed.
Textures
I got rid of most of the blemishes by editing default textures, and textures made by Bishounen159 have been a great help and inspiration. I have acquired permission for using their textures mostly to tweak the brow and eye area.
Check out Hot As Bloody Hell - Astarion Young Edition and Hot As Bloody Hell - Astarion Mature Edition by the aforementioned author if you desire even more flavor for our favorite vampire.
Colors
Eyelashes are following the default hair and brow color more closely, without being too bright.
Eye color is slightly brighter, illuminated with golden shade around the pupil.
If you are using Appearance Edit Enhanced with Origin addon, I suggest you also use Astarion Character Creation Camera Fix so you could zoom-in Astarion in CC, as well as Origin Color Swatches Unlocked which gives you options in CC to choose default colors of skin, eyes and hair for Origin characters.
* My screenshots are made with Astarion's default colors, alongside my tweaked eyelashes and eyes. No makeup nor hair highlights. I also use Less Wrinkled Expression (similar to vanilla), so expressions may appear even smoother than they would be with default wrinkle map.
Some comparison screenshots may not be perfectly aligned.
The mod is offered as-is. I do not plan on making any drastic edits to any aspect of this mod, save for technical reasons. I also don't plan to make the mod available on Mod.io.
Installation
There are two options available:
- .pak version which should be installed with your Mod Manager.
- Loose version which you unzip and drop the files in your BG3 directory.
Do not use both.
With loose version, you can choose what you install.
"Generated" folder contains head model (inside _Anims) and textures (inside _Models).
"Public" folder contains color changes (.lsf file), and the head's _Base model (armature correspondent to modded head model).
Before you install either, make sure you're not already using a mod which changes Astarion's head, face textures and native colors.
Loose files will always overwrite .pak mods, so keep that in mind.
As for load order, this guide has proven very useful. Put it together with other mods that edit NPC faces.
Uninstallation
Uninstall the .pak by deleting it from your load order in your Mod Manager. Or remove the loose files from your BG3 directory. Your saves won't be affected in either case.
Tools used:
Blender 3.6.10
Norbyte's Collada Exporter
Padme's Blender Addons
Granny Viewer
Norbyte's LSLib toolkit
Noesis
ShinyHobo's Modder's Multitool
BG3 Mini Tool
paint.net
GIMP
Notepad++
Mods in screenshots:
Appearance Edit Enhanced with Origins addon
Astarion Character Creation Camera Fix
Origin Color Swatches Unlocked
Less Wrinkled Expression and Forehead
Piercing Improvement - Physics
Pirates and Rebels
CLEAR SKIES (personal tweak)
PK Clothes and Armours
Hyperlegible Readability
No bite marks.
Colors of eyelashes and eyes are tweaked.
Details:
Sculpting
Cheeks are ironed, lower part of the face is slightly lifted, the front of the face is less pointed outward, ears are closer to the head, eyelashes are elongated.
Much of Astarion's "grinch smile" is preserved, and even though I wasn't able to retain all his native facial animations, I've done everything that is currently possible to keep the spirit of his expressions.
If you wish to know more about why Astarion's expressions are different after the head is edited in Blender, read through this Discord thread.
Textures
I got rid of most of the blemishes by editing default textures, and textures made by Bishounen159 have been a great help and inspiration. I have acquired permission for using their textures mostly to tweak the brow and eye area.
Check out Hot As Bloody Hell - Astarion Young Edition and Hot As Bloody Hell - Astarion Mature Edition by the aforementioned author if you desire even more flavor for our favorite vampire.
Colors
Eyelashes are following the default hair and brow color more closely, without being too bright.
Eye color is slightly brighter, illuminated with golden shade around the pupil.
If you are using Appearance Edit Enhanced with Origin addon, I suggest you also use Astarion Character Creation Camera Fix so you could zoom-in Astarion in CC, as well as Origin Color Swatches Unlocked which gives you options in CC to choose default colors of skin, eyes and hair for Origin characters.
* My screenshots are made with Astarion's default colors, alongside my tweaked eyelashes and eyes. No makeup nor hair highlights. I also use Less Wrinkled Expression (similar to vanilla), so expressions may appear even smoother than they would be with default wrinkle map.
Some comparison screenshots may not be perfectly aligned.
The mod is offered as-is. I do not plan on making any drastic edits to any aspect of this mod, save for technical reasons. I also don't plan to make the mod available on Mod.io.
Installation
There are two options available:
- .pak version which should be installed with your Mod Manager.
- Loose version which you unzip and drop the files in your BG3 directory.
Do not use both.
With loose version, you can choose what you install.
"Generated" folder contains head model (inside _Anims) and textures (inside _Models).
"Public" folder contains color changes (.lsf file), and the head's _Base model (armature correspondent to modded head model).
Before you install either, make sure you're not already using a mod which changes Astarion's head, face textures and native colors.
Loose files will always overwrite .pak mods, so keep that in mind.
As for load order, this guide has proven very useful. Put it together with other mods that edit NPC faces.
Uninstallation
Uninstall the .pak by deleting it from your load order in your Mod Manager. Or remove the loose files from your BG3 directory. Your saves won't be affected in either case.
Tools used:
Blender 3.6.10
Norbyte's Collada Exporter
Padme's Blender Addons
Granny Viewer
Norbyte's LSLib toolkit
Noesis
ShinyHobo's Modder's Multitool
BG3 Mini Tool
paint.net
GIMP
Notepad++
Mods in screenshots:
Appearance Edit Enhanced with Origins addon
Astarion Character Creation Camera Fix
Origin Color Swatches Unlocked
Less Wrinkled Expression and Forehead
Piercing Improvement - Physics
Pirates and Rebels
CLEAR SKIES (personal tweak)
PK Clothes and Armours
Hyperlegible Readability